/r/NewsAndPolitics
Beit Jala (Area A of the West Bank) is under the Palestinian Authority. Yet Israeli settlers have kicked a Palestinian Christian family off their land by force, despite them having Israeli-approved documents. The ICJ ruled that Israel's occupation of ALL the West Bank, Gaza & East Jerusalem illegal.
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On the pro-Palestine panel, Daniel Levy (once an Israeli negotiator at Oslo 2) says pro-Israel arguments are now ineffectual since Israel has immunity for its crimes & no longer has to be convincing. Benny Morris pejoratively labels Levy, who fires back "I'm pro-Jewish, pro-Palestinian, pro-human!"
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At an anti-fascist rally in Oxford - Maryam, a community organizer, explains what the underlying issue is: 'The far-right have been emboldened by politicians who use migrants as scapegoats to cover up their policies of austerity, cost of living, and an underfunded NHS.'
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Donald Trump says he would fire ABC News correspondent Rachel Scott for asking him 'tough' questions without any "sugar" at the NABJ conference, stating: "But she doesn't know about sugar, that one."
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Masked Israeli settlers trespass on a Palestinian home and attack Palestinian family with clubs, cracking their skulls, in the West Bank. Israeli soldiers then arrest and interrogate a Palestinian. None of the Israeli settlers were arrested or charged.
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Israel's Channel 12 News exposes that IDF soldiers were given polygraph tests about their rape of a Palestinian detainee. The soldiers were found to be lying & tried to cover it up. A lawyer for one soldier tries justifying the crime as a 'security measure' because the detainee was 'resisting'. NSFW
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Israeli conscientious objector Yuval Moav explains why he refuses to enlist in the IDF. Yuval was sentenced today to 30 days in military prison. Meanwhile, the ultra-Orthodox community is also protesting the issuing of conscription orders after the Israeli Supreme Court's ruling on the matter.
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